LANDSCAPE AND THE PSYCHE OF WOMEN IN MARGARET DRABBLE’S THE NEEDLE’S EYE

Abstract

Throughout the history women make their stamp at each level. From the ancient world till today there are number of women poets, priests, queens, rulers, mothers, soldiers and captains. They struggle everyday to achieve their position in the society. The number of women writers has increased in the twentieth century. Margaret Drabble the post modern female writer is one among those women achievers who make her stamp in the history of British Literature and especially in feminism. This article throws light on Drabble’sThe Needle’s Eye portraying the landscape and the experiences of women.

Drabble wrote novels when sociologists and journalists were realising the problems of a house wife. So when Drabble’s fiction was out, educated young wives and mothers were finding it difficult to adjust to domestic life. They found their own problems discussed in her works. They identified themselves with the central women characters and were one with her. Drabble’s greatest gift lay in her sense of timing. She contributed to the literature as the first English woman to give voice to the delusive promise of college life, followed by the cold touch of matrimony and child-rearing.